New York City Mayor Eric Adams arrived in federal court in Manhattan on Friday morning for his arraignment on criminal charges of receiving illegal campaign donations and undisclosed luxury travel gifts while doing favors for Turkey’s government and Turkish businessmen. Adams, 64, was charged in a five-count indictment unsealed Thursday alleging conspiracy, bribery, wire fraud, … Read more
JPMorgan Chase CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon gestures as he speaks during the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee oversight hearing on Wall Street firms, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 6, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Buried in a roughly 200-page quarterly filing from JPMorgan Chase last month were eight … Read more
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer gives a media interview while attending the 79th United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, U.S. September 25, 2024. Leon Neal | Via Reuters The United Kingdom is pursuing investment from America’s biggest banks and tech giants, as the country looks to infuse growth in … Read more
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance of Ohio are meeting Tuesday for their first and only scheduled vice presidential debate. Walz, who is Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, and Vance, who is on the Republican ticket with former President Donald Trump, will make the case for their respective candidates five weeks … Read more
An investigation into 7-Eleven’s use of facial recognition technology (FRT) has now been closed by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC). The global convenience store chain — with over 700 stores in Australia — promised it would not repeat its 2021 breaches of the Privacy Act, which captured 1.6 million faces on tablets … Read more
A National Institutes of Health investigation has found research misconduct by one of its top neuroscientists, the agency said Thursday. In a statement, the NIH said the findings involve images in two studies co-authored by Dr. Eliezer Masliah, who in 2016 joined the agency’s National Institute on Aging as its neuroscience division director. NIH said … Read more
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As the Labour party conference kicked off in Liverpool, the rain clouds gathered. Drenched delegates should have been celebrating at their first conference in power for 15 years. Instead, the mood was subdued after weeks of ministers hammering home their message that the Conservative party had left the country in a terrible economic state. Anger … Read more
The Canadian Armed Forces is changing its posture to the crisis in Lebanon and increasing troops in the region to give the government more flexibility — including the ability to move quickly if an evacuation of Canadian citizens is ordered, Global News has learned. Canada’s plan has been ready for months and some assets have … Read more
Australia is pushing to hold the Taliban to account for its crackdown on freedoms for Afghan women since seizing control. It joins Canada, Germany and the Netherlands in spearheading a challenge to the Taliban under an international convention on eliminating discrimination against women, to which Afghanistan is a party. The formal notification under the convention, … Read more
